List of international cricket centuries by Graham Gooch

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Gooch has scored 28 international centuries for England.

Graham Gooch is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches on twenty and eight occasions respectively, in an international career spanning nearly two decades. He is one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation; through a first-class career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057. [1] With 8,900 runs, Gooch was the leading Test run-scorer for England [2] until overtaken by Alastair Cook in 2015. [3] Gooch is one of 25 players in history to have scored over 100 first-class centuries. [4] Having coached at Essex, [5] he was full-time test batting coach for the England cricket team 2012–2014. [6]

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Five years after Gooch's Test debut where he made a pair of ducks against Australia at Edgbaston in July 1975, [7] he scored his first Test century with 123 against the West Indies at Lord's in June 1980. [8] Gooch's highest Test score is 333, which he made in the first innings against India in 1990. As of October 2024, this is the third-highest Test score by an Englishman (after Len Hutton's 364 and Wally Hammond's 336 not out), and is the equal thirteenth-highest score in Test history. [9] He went on to score 123 in the second innings of the same Test match, [10] becoming the sixth Englishman at that time to have scored a century in both innings of a Test match, and the first for over 40 years. [11] Gooch is one of fewer than 60 batsmen to carry his bat in a Test innings when, in 1991 against the West Indies, he remained not out at the end of the England innings with a score of 154. [12] He is also one of only seven cricketers in Test history, and the only on a score of 100 or greater, to have been dismissed by handling the ball, [13] when he flicked the ball away from the stumps against Australia in 1993. [14]

Gooch scored 32 on his One Day International (ODI) debut, against the West Indies at Scarborough in August 1976. [15] His first ODI century came in August 1980. Scoring 108, and making an opening partnership of 154 with Geoffrey Boycott, Gooch's innings led England to a 47-run victory over Australia at Edgbaston. [16] Gooch's highest ODI score is 142 which he achieved against Pakistan in November 1987. As of October 2024, this is also the sixteenth-highest score by an Englishman in ODI history. [17]

Key

Key
SymbolMeaning
*Remained not out
† Man of the match
‡Captained the England cricket team
Balls Balls faced
Pos.Position in the batting order
Inn.The innings of the match
TestThe number of the Test match played in that series
S/R Strike rate during the innings
H/A/NVenue was at home (England), away or neutral
DateDate the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches
LostThe match was lost by England.
WonThe match was won by England.
DrawnThe match was drawn.

Test cricket centuries

List of Test centuries scored by Graham Gooch
No.ScoreAgainstPos.Inn.TestVenueH/A/NDateResultRef
1123WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 112/5 Lord's Cricket Ground, LondonHome19 June 1980Drawn [8]
2116WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 143/5 Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, BarbadosAway13 March 1981Lost [18]
3153WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 115/5 Sabina Park, Kingston, JamaicaAway10 April 1981Drawn [19]
4127Flag of India.svg  India 125/6 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, ChennaiAway13 January 1982Drawn [20]
5 †196Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 116/6 Kennington Oval, LondonHome29 August 1985Won [21]
6114Flag of India.svg  India 111/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, LondonHome5 June 1986Lost [22]
7 †183Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 131/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, LondonHome24 July 1986Drawn [23]
8146WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 131/5 Trent Bridge, NottinghamHome2 June 1988Drawn [24]
9 ‡154Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 113/3 Edgbaston, BirminghamHome5 July 1990Won [25]
10 †‡333Flag of India.svg  India 111/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, LondonHome26 July 1990Won [10]
11 †‡123Flag of India.svg  India 131/3 Lord's Cricket Ground, LondonHome26 July 1990Won [10]
12 ‡116Flag of India.svg  India 112/3 Old Trafford Cricket Ground, ManchesterHome9 August 1990Drawn [26]
13 †‡117Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 144/5 Adelaide Oval, AdelaideAway25 January 1991Drawn [27]
14 †‡154*WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 131/5 Headingley, LeedsHome6 June 1991Won [28]
15 ‡174Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 131/1 Lord's Cricket Ground, LondonHome22 August 1991Won [29]
16 †‡114Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 132/3 Eden Park, AucklandAway30 January 1992Won [30]
17 †‡135Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 124/5 Headingley, LeedsHome23 July 1992Won [31]
18 ‡133Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 141/6 Old Trafford Cricket Ground, ManchesterHome3 June 1993Lost [32]
19 ‡120Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 533/6 Trent Bridge, NottinghamHome1 July 1993Drawn [33]
20 †210Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 321/3 Trent Bridge, NottinghamHome2 June 1994Won [34]

One Day International centuries

List of ODI centuries scored by Graham Gooch
No.ScoreBallsAgainstPos.Inn.S/RVenueH/A/NDateResultRef
1 †108113Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1195.57 Edgbaston, BirminghamHome22 August 1980Won [16]
2115159Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1172.32 Edgbaston, BirminghamHome1 June 1985Lost [35]
3117*164Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1271.34 Lord's, LondonHome3 June 1985Won [36]
4 †129*118WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 12109.32 Queen's Park Oval, Port of SpainAway4 March 1986Won [37]
5 †115136Flag of India.svg  India 1184.55 Wankhede Stadium, MumbaiAway5 November 1987Won [38]
6 †142134Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 11105.97 National Stadium, KarachiAway20 November 1987Won [39]
7136162Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1183.95 Lord's, LondonHome29 May 1989Lost [40]
8 ‡112*152Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1273.68 Kennington Oval, LondonHome25 May 1990Won [41]

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